I'm having some troubles booting FreeBSD. I have experienced similar things before and have subsequently given up on installing BSD. With the stable release of FreeBSD 11, I thought I'd give it another try, but to no avail. I will describe my actions step by step.
I grabbed the amd64 memstick image from the official site, called "FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img.xz". I decompressed and wrote it to a bootable USB stick and proceeded to boot from it. I was greeted with the FreeBSD installer. I followed the prompts and installed FreeBSD over the top of a previous Linux installation using the default guided MBR disk layouts. When choosing a disk to install to, a messaged popped up that (from memory) mentioned "pre-install checks failed", but I OKed it and it went away. I confirmed the default partition scheme and FreeBSD was installed on my computer. I restarted.
The computer booted from its internal disks, and printed the FreeBSD ASCII art daemon head at boot stage 3. The little spinner was not spinning. The loader was not responding to the number keys for choosing the boot modes. The keyboard seemed to be ignored entirely. I re-imaged the boot USB and booted to it again. Now it also hangs at the stage 3 bootloader.
My computer is only responsive up to boot stage 2, whereby I can escape to choose the loader file. The internal disk boots off of an internal SSD, and stage 2 calls the file
I am dumbfounded. Why would an installation on an internal disk have any effect on a live USB? How can I even begin to fix the boot problem if I can't even boot to a rescue OS? My current plan is to try manual partitioning and maybe tinker with the loader file. I may have to use a Linux for this. If you have any thoughts about my conundrum, I would very much like to hear them.
REQUESTED DETAILS:
Stock computer name: Toshiba Satellite L50-C
Laptop, modded only with a replacement SSD of yet-to-be-named make.
CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U
SSD: SanDisk SDSSDA120GB(S1) <don't know what that even means>
RAM: 8GB
Has options for SATA performance tweaking, so I guess she has SATA.
(As reported by UEFI ROM)
SOLUTION:
Weird ROM settings needed to be disabled. Something called "Virtualisation Technology" needed to be toggled off and now things are apparently sweet. Both the internal and external drives boot fine.
I grabbed the amd64 memstick image from the official site, called "FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img.xz". I decompressed and wrote it to a bootable USB stick and proceeded to boot from it. I was greeted with the FreeBSD installer. I followed the prompts and installed FreeBSD over the top of a previous Linux installation using the default guided MBR disk layouts. When choosing a disk to install to, a messaged popped up that (from memory) mentioned "pre-install checks failed", but I OKed it and it went away. I confirmed the default partition scheme and FreeBSD was installed on my computer. I restarted.
The computer booted from its internal disks, and printed the FreeBSD ASCII art daemon head at boot stage 3. The little spinner was not spinning. The loader was not responding to the number keys for choosing the boot modes. The keyboard seemed to be ignored entirely. I re-imaged the boot USB and booted to it again. Now it also hangs at the stage 3 bootloader.
My computer is only responsive up to boot stage 2, whereby I can escape to choose the loader file. The internal disk boots off of an internal SSD, and stage 2 calls the file
0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader. The USB boots, and stage 2 calls it 0:ad(0p3)/boot/loader.I am dumbfounded. Why would an installation on an internal disk have any effect on a live USB? How can I even begin to fix the boot problem if I can't even boot to a rescue OS? My current plan is to try manual partitioning and maybe tinker with the loader file. I may have to use a Linux for this. If you have any thoughts about my conundrum, I would very much like to hear them.
REQUESTED DETAILS:
Stock computer name: Toshiba Satellite L50-C
Laptop, modded only with a replacement SSD of yet-to-be-named make.
CPU: Intel Core i5-5200U
SSD: SanDisk SDSSDA120GB(S1) <don't know what that even means>
RAM: 8GB
Has options for SATA performance tweaking, so I guess she has SATA.
(As reported by UEFI ROM)
SOLUTION:
Weird ROM settings needed to be disabled. Something called "Virtualisation Technology" needed to be toggled off and now things are apparently sweet. Both the internal and external drives boot fine.
